[tdf-announce] The Document Foundation Releases LibreOffice 26.2.1 with Contributions from Community and Ecosystem Partners

Videos describing new features available on YouTube and PeerTube

Berlin, 26 February 2026 – The Document Foundation today announced the 
release of LibreOffice 26.2.1, the first maintenance update to the 
LibreOffice 26.2 branch. Building on the major feature release published 
on February 4, 2026, this update delivers targeted bug fixes and 
stability improvements contributed by a global community of developers, 
QA engineers, and ecosystem companies.

LibreOffice 26.2.1 is available for immediate download at 
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/ for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

LibreOffice 26.2 introduced a broad set of improvements to daily 
productivity workflows, including Markdown import and export, connector 
shapes in Calc, multi-user Base, faster EPUB export, and mandatory Skia 
rendering on macOS and Windows for better graphics performance. 
LibreOffice 26.2.1 consolidates these advances with a focused set of 
fixes, addressing issues identified by users and testers since the 
initial release.

Videos describing the new features of the LibreOffice 25.2 family area 
available on PeerTube: 
https://peertube.opencloud.lu/w/pyAi3grZqqrBaN1XWzWrvw and YouTube: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WeQJjzCPls.

A significant share of the fixes in LibreOffice 26.2.1 originates from 
the companies that form the LibreOffice ecosystem. These organisations 
employ experienced developers who contribute code upstream, ensuring 
that improvements benefit the entire LibreOffice user base — whether 
they run the community build or a vendor-supported distribution.

The Document Foundation thanks all ecosystem partners for their 
sustained investment in the health and quality of the shared codebase.

List of fixes in RC1: 
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/26.2.1/RC1. List of fixes 
in RC2: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/26.2.1/RC2.

LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can 
support The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice project with a 
donation at https://www.libreoffice.org/donate.

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